Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Star plot

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/starplot.htm


1979 automobile analysis using star plot
 
This shows the analysis of 16 cars based on mileage, head room and other attitributes the denote the worth of a vehicle. This is a star plot because it has spokes the represent one variable. The data length of a spoke is proportional to the size of the variable for the data point relative to the maximum magnitude of the variable across all data points. A line is drawn connecting the data values for each spoke making the figure resemble a star.

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